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Joel on Software: Exploding Offer Season
If you’re a college student applying for jobs or summer internships, you’re at something of a disadvantage when it comes to negotiation. That’s because the recruiter does these negotiations for a l…
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 11,893 posts.
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Stack Overflow Creative Commons Data Dump
We decided early on that all user-generated content on Stack Overflow would be under a Creative Commons license . All those great Stack Overflow questions, answers, and comments, so generously contributed by all of you , are licensed under cc-wiki (also known as cc-by-sa ):
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Sound
Interactive article explaining how sound works.
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My Business Card Runs Linux
I’m an embedded systems engineer. I spend a lot of my free time looking for things I could use in future designs, or things that tickle one of my fancies.
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Airfoil
Interactive article explaining the physics of an airfoil and what makes airplanes fly
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Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last week at Google.
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How Firefox Got Fast Again
Over the past seven months, we’ve been rapidly replacing major parts of the engine, introducing Rust and parts of Servo to Firefox. Plus, we’ve had a browser performance strike force ...
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Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. today announced a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SBG and the SoftBank Vision Fund in a transaction valued at $40 billion.
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Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
Apple announced changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store impacting developers’ apps in the EU to comply with the DMA.
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Introducing System One Models and Jev
TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access.
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Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub
You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way.
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The Cloud Computer
Announcing the world's first commercial cloud computer.
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Zoom Acquires Keybase
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Google’s GDPR Workaround
Brave presents new RTB evidence, and has uncovered a mechanism by which Google appears to be circumventing its purported GDPR privacy protections.
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I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
Hello friends! :^) Let me tell you a story…
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My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
The biggest transition for me when I started college was learning to get organized. There was a point when I couldn't just remember everything in my head. And having to constantly keep track of things was distracting me from whatever task I was doing at the moment.
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Total Cookie Protection
Total Cookie Protection is a major anti-tracking advance in Firefox that confines cookies to the site where they were created.
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Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
A refreshed, more powerful Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3.5 Haiku, and a new experimental AI capability: computer use.
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Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registration
A Hacker's Blog of Unintended Use and Insomnia.
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What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project
Yesterday my colleague mentioned that a script I wrote was getting a lot of attention on Twitter. This particular project was something I wrote a couple years ago to help me out with a workflow. I …
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This Page is Designed to Last
The end of the year is an opportunity to clean up and reset for the upcoming new semester. I found myself clearing out old bookmarks—yes, bookmarks: that formerly beloved browser feature that seems to have lost the battle to 'address bar autocomplete'. But this nostalgic act of tidying led me to despair.
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Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
We're adopting Rust as our C++ successor language, and using AI agents to accelerate the transition.
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Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
Credit card rewards are mostly funded out of interchange, a fee paid by businesses to accept cards.
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Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness
Two major problems with a review in Nature